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How Does Ponyboy Change In The Outsiders

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Everybody has opinions, people just don’t have just an opinion, people just want to tell the world about our opinion, but everyone’s opinion is different and can change throughout the years, months but not even days. For example, In The Outsiders, ponyboy, a character from the Outsiders who is also a gang member and is the youngest brother of the family., had a lot of gut wrenching events because of the Soc’s, the Soc’s are another group "the jet set, the West-side rich kids” (chapter 1), are selfish middle class people who in other cases cause a lot of trouble throughout the novel, and there are multiple people that influence the way ponyboy thinks about the Soc’s throughout the novel. Over the course of the novel, in chapter 4, Johnny …show more content…

But he wasn't. That still body back in the hospital wasn't Johnny. “Johnny was somewhere else -- maybe asleep in the lot, or playing the pinball machine in the bowling alley, or sitting on the back steps of the church in Windrixville. . . He isn't dead, I said to myself. He isn't dead. And this time my dreaming worked. I convinced myself that he wasn't dead”, (chapter 9) this shows that ponyboy is in denial within the death of johnny, and some other characters like dally slams his body and hits the wall against the wall of the room, and while Ponyboy watches Dally’s reaction, he is just in silence and shock. Johnny's death was so surprising that even Randy ( who is a Soc) decided to visit ponyboy which was a nice detail for ponyboy because he was so concerned about his mental and physical health, and he also admitted that it was their fault that they fought in the park. “His buddy Randy Adderson, who had helped lump us, also said it was their fault and that we'd only fought back in self-defense”, (chapter …show more content…

Another occurrence that shows that Ponyboy is undoubtedly changing is when Ponyboy is capable of empathy for having empathy towards the Soc’s while Ponyboy visits cherry, “I would, I would help her and Randy both if I could. “Hey,” I said suddenly, “can you see the sunset real good from the West Side?” (chapter 8), shows that he cares a little bit about

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